Cruise reports from the marine monitoring

Reports from SMHI's regular marine monitoring programme. Data presented in the reports have been subject to preliminary quality control procedures only.

Cruise report from R/V Argos week 9-11, 2007

Oxygen conditions in the main part of the Hanö Bight, east of Öland, around the Midsjö Banks and in the Northern part of the Bornholm Basin were good. Below 70-80 metres depth, both west and east of Gotland, oxygen concentrations were below 2 ml/l. Hydrogen Sulphide was found at three stations west of...
Typ: Reports, Cruise report from the marine monitoring, Oceanography
Författare: Anna-Kerstin Thell
Publicerad: April 2007

Cruise report from R/V Argos week 12, 2007

In the Southern Baltic Proper, concentrations of phosphate and silicate in surface waters remain high, while nitrate concentrations were normal. Nutrient concentrations in the Skagerrak and the Kattegat were normal for the season throughout the study area. There was an algal bloom along the Swedish west...
Typ: Reports, Cruise report from the marine monitoring, Oceanography
Författare: Bodil Thorstensson
Publicerad: March 2007

Cruise report from R/V Argos week 8, 2007

High concentrations of phosphate were measured in the surface water of the southern Baltic. Silicate concentrations were also enhanced while nitrogen showed normal values. On the West-Coast nutrients concentrations, except for silicate, were normal or close to normal. Silicate concentrations in the Skagerrak...
Typ: Reports, Cruise report from the marine monitoring, Oceanography
Författare: Lars Andersson
Publicerad: February 2007

Cruise report from R/V Argos week 4-6, 2007

The expedition was included within National Board of Fisheries International Bottom Trawl Survey and covered the Skagerrak and the Kattegat and the Sound. Mapping of winter nutrient conditions was performed in the Skagerrak and 14 stations with complete hydrography were sampled. In the Kattegat 10 stations...
Typ: Reports, Cruise report from the marine monitoring, Oceanography
Författare: Lars Andersson
Publicerad: February 2007

Cruise report from R/V Argos week 3, 2007

Surface water temperatures were above normal in all areas. Surface salinities were high in the Kattegat and the Sound and an inflow to the Baltic occurred the week before the expedition. In the Southern Baltic Proper concentrations of phosphate were raised in the surface water. Otherwise, nutrient concentrations...
Typ: Reports, Cruise report from the marine monitoring, Oceanography
Författare: Bengt Yhlen
Publicerad: January 2007